RIVER CITY GIRLS 2 SERIES

Americasia: River City in this game has Japanese style private schools where American cheerleaders and Japanese Delinquents coexist.Abobo in particular looks like a mix between a Mexican gang leader and a black bodybuilder.Given the Americasia setting, and some black skinned and white skinned mooks having non-Japanese names like 'Malhar' and 'Colleen' respectively does enough to establish racial identities. Race is not relevant in the game but some characters are obviously not white or Asian. Ambiguously Brown: Some of the enemies.The second verse however takes a darker turn, as the singer is revealed to be a masochist who enjoys the various physical injuries his girlfriend inflicts on him, to the horror of his back-up singers. Amazon Chaser: The first verse of 'Can't Quit the RCG' has the singer muse about how much he loves women that can kick his ass.Godai goes from a late game boss in River City Ransom to a scrawny bystander who does not display any kind of fighting ability.Subverted, since they were just at a sauna all day and in the secret ending, they are offended at the idea that they could ever get kidnapped. Kunio and Riki, previously able to beat down entire gangs, were kidnapped at the beginning of this game.The Secret ending downplays this and puts Kyoko and Misako on much friendlier terms with the boys, and hints at a proper relationship. The ending to the True Final Boss fight against Hasebe and Mami turns this into a meta-joke, with the duo's debut in River City Girls Zero being revealed to be something akin to a forgotten first date. Instead, the boys are revealed to be dating Hasebe and Mami, respectively.

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The normal ending shows Misako and Kyoko are revealed in the end to not be Kunio and Riki's girlfriends in this game.And when you beat them both, they both act like Sore Losers, going so far as to accuse you of cheating. In fact, you're going to be really glad when you get to fight them both in the Bonus Boss fight. Adaptational Jerkass: Both Hasebe and Mami are rude and snotty in this game, with a flashback even going so far as to show that they both bullied Misako and Kyoko since grade school.The two heroines appear to have more curves compared to their debut, as well as Reika. Adaptational Curves: Marian from Double Dragon appears in this game, this time wearing an outfit that exposes her stomach, showing off her ripped abs.Hasebe and Mami make up a Bonus Boss in this game, while both of them were just passive love interests during the rest of the franchise, with Mami even being the Damsel in Distress for River City Ransom. In this one, they're strong enough to pick said enemies up and use them as bludgeons. Noticably, in their first game, the girls couldn't grapple enemies. Adaptational Badass: Misako and Kyoko are notably more badass than their first appearance, going from weaker than the boys to being able to throw down on their level.Misuzu in this game still has an enormous, blocky figure, but a much more feminine face and decently-sized breasts. Adaptational Attractiveness: Misuzu originally look like a burly middle-aged man dressed like a schoolgirl.Achievements in Ignorance: Kyoko somehow managed to get detention in a school she doesn't even attend.Achievement Mockery: The 'Killed By Math' achievement, given out for being defeated in the first room of the game.It was released for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows. Perhaps surprisingly, it only has English voice acting, even though it's still published by Arc System Works that currently owns the rights to the series. It follows the open-world system in River City Ransom, but not without new gameplay additions. Besides starring the heroines (a callback to the 1994 SNES game River City Girls Zero) and using a new graphical style, it fuses the original's Japanese setting with Western tastes to create a distinct Americasia outlook.

RIVER CITY GIRLS 2 SERIES

The 2019 entry to the Kunio-kun series developed by WayForward Technologies, River City Girls is a departure for the franchise. Now they must fight their way through the regions of River City to get them back, encountering an assortment of strange villains along the way. It seemed like an ordinary peaceful day in River City High to Misako and Kyoko, two street-tough high-schoolers, until they hear some shocking news: their boyfriends Kunio and Riki, the toughest, baddest guys in the town, have been kidnapped.

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